Far East Cynic

They do not even know the right questions to ask.

Life is tough. It’s even tougher when one is stupid and just blindly supports evil. I had the misfortune of reading a worthless piece of shit defending our unnecessary attack on Iran by stating: “He threatened to kill “an entire civilization because they pledged to kill ours and claim a

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They are burning the house down and they don’t care.

Trump is not making America great. They are destroying it as fast as they can. In 2016, I wrote an article entitled “The Vengeance Election.” In it, I pointed out that the support for a worthless idiot like Trump was not based on any coherent ideas or vision for governance or

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There is a difference between support and enabling reckless, lawless behavior.

Why colluding with Israeli aggression is a bad idea. Many years ago, I participated in a wargame whose primary thesis was – what happens if Israel acts unilaterally and drags us into a war not of our own choosing. Turns out it was prophetic. The premise of the game was

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Good people are many times, anything but.

One story of a man who did terrible emotional damage to someone and never suffered for it. A story of how someone else’s squadron mate was really a terrible person.

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The Old Corps is not coming back.

No matter what Hegseth says or wants — it’s the 21st Century now and the world he longs for no longer exists. From 1975 to 1979, I attended The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. At the time, the college was all-male; women were not admitted, and this did

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Right, but for all the wrong reasons.

Yes, the US has too many generals and admirals, but Hegseth is not the man to fix that. Our inept Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has stated that he wants to cut 20% of the four-star officer positions and 10% of the rest of the general and flag officer community. I am

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20 years.

Over the past 10 years, I have increasingly come to dread the arrival of September 11th. It is the day the United States will remember a terrible criminal act in its history. 2977 people died that day from a brazen terror attack pulled off by 19 terrorists, mostly of Saudi

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The rot, it runs deep.

Today I saw something that made me truly despair for the future of this country. 124 former flag officers, several of whom I used to respect, had the unmitigated gall to put their names to a piece of shit, rather traitorous, letter. https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/fb7c7bd8-097d-4e2f-8f12-3442d151b57d/downloads/2021%20Open%20Letter%20from%20Retired%20Generals%20and%20Adm.pdf?ver=1620643005025&fbclid=IwAR0VuxO5QWIii8O-Z4Xp9Qu5-mMailCNVpKEmK3m0DjM_FqHIBoobPkdN4M One of the signatories is a former

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Let’s hurry up and get it over with.

Playing Round 20 of that peculiarly American game, “Who lost Afghanistan?” Interestingly enough, there is one answer that is never allowed in this discussion. No one ever blames the Afghans themselves. As a result, it’s similar to the old game Americans used to play: “ Who lost Iraq?“ An interesting

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Veteran’s Day

The 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. Today is Armistice Day, Veterans Day, and Remembrance Day. Almost 100 million dead in the Wars of the 20th and 21st centuries-an astounding number. “Either war is finished-or we are.“ I do understand the difference between Veteran’s Day and

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